James Beard Award Winner (Vegetarian)
IACP Award Winner (Healthy Eating)

The 10th anniversary edition of the James Beard Award–winner that gives all the tools you need to be at home in your kitchen, cooking in the most nourishing and delicious ways—from the foundations of stocking a pantry and understanding your ingredients to preparing elaborate seasonal feasts.

With her love of whole food and her know-how as a chef, Amy Chaplin wrote an influential book ahead of its time that includes all you need to eat well at every meal, every day, year-round. Ten years later, it remains a beloved, go-to guide for home cooks.  

This anniversary edition begins with an updated introduction detailing the author's journey working with food. Part one educates the reader on stocking the pantry, offering not just a list of items needed but real working knowledge on how and when to use ingredients, including a foundation of simple recipes for daily nourishment. From there, the book presents a collection of recipes celebrating vegetarian cuisine in its brightest, most sophisticated form. Black rice breakfast pudding with coconut and banana? Yes, please. Beet tartlets with poppy seed crust and white bean fennel filling? I'll take two. Fragrant eggplant curry with cardamom basmati rice, apricot chutney, and cucumber lime raita? Invite company. Honey vanilla bean ice cream with roasted plums and coconut crunch? There is always room for this kind of dessert. This is whole food for everyone.

AMY CHAPLIN has worked as a vegetarian chef for over twenty years. She is the former executive chef of New York’s renowned vegan restaurant Angelica Kitchen, a recipe developer, a teacher, and a private chef whose clients include Natalie Portman and Liv Tyler. Amy’s delicious vegan and vegetarian cuisine has appeared in numerous publications, including Martha Stewart Living, Vogue, Whole Living, New York magazine, the Guardian, and Fitness. She is also a regular contributor to the Food Network’s HealthyEats blog. A native of Australia, over the last two decades Chaplin has worked as a chef in Amsterdam, London, Sydney, and New York. She currently resides in New York City.